Driving enterprise search to cover ever more content does not necessarily deliver better results.
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Clean up your Active Directory first!.
Before personalisation can be implemented, underlying LDAP or Active Directory implementations need to be cleaned up.
Avoid long-term strategies.
All too often, 18-24 month information management strategies fail to deliver benefits, but there is an alternative.
There are no "KM systems".
Organisations should abandon the search for ‘knowledge management systems’, and focus more closely on the specific capabilities required.
The importance of ‘tangible’ and ‘visible’.
Intranet teams should be guided by two words when planning intranet activities: tangible and visible.
Automating three types of forms.
There is a ‘rule of thirds’ that can be used to categorise the main types of forms that exist on an intranet.
The real cost of email in organisations.
There is very real cost of the reliance on email: the duplication of information management activities, which has a significant impact on productivity, consistency and…
Managing key information.
There are several key categories of documents that should be targeted as part of information management projects, while other documents can be ignored.
10 principles of effective information management.
Effective information management is not easy. This article outlines 10 critical success factors that address organisational, cultural and strategic issues.
Definition of information management terms.
This briefing provides an at-a-glance definition of terms for a range of information systems, including CMS, DMS and RMS.